Thatcher: The Malady Lingers On

Poor old Daily Mail.
How ironic to see the Hate Mail complaining about people supposedly fanning "the flames of hatred". 
And did you know this is all the fault of those Buggers Broadcasting Communism, the BBC?
Why?
Err, they kept mentioning the miners' strike and the poll tax. 
The Mail Online's Right Minds section is full of tributes to the blessed Margaret - and a bit of a hoot. 
Morrissey has also issued a statement - he's still not a fan, strangely.
Thought he might have warmed to her in his increasingly batty and bitter dotage.
He also forgot to include Mrs T's infamous line on immigration; "People rather fear being swamped by a people of a different culture."
Thought he'd like that one.

PS The Mail also reports that the cast of Billy Elliot asked audience members if they should perform the song Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher ("We all celebrate today, cause it's one day closer to your death") on the night she died.
The public overwhelmingly voted yes.
It's quite jolly - here's Elton John's own version.
Maybe Sir Elton could perform it at her funeral, Candle In The Wind-style? 
It'd also be a more fitting number one this week than Ding Dong! The Sodding Witch Is Dead.

PPS Sad and strange how much Section 28, homophobia hysteria and inaction over the Aids crisis has been missed out of her narrative.
Pleasing to hear Ed Miliband touch on this in his speech to the Commons today.

"But it would be dishonest and not in keeping with the principles that Margaret Thatcher stood for, even on this day, not to be open with this House about the strong opinions and the deep divisions there were, and are, over what she did.
"In mining areas, like the one I represent, communities felt angry and abandoned.
"Gay and lesbian people felt stigmatised by measures like section 28, which today's Conservative party has rightly repudiated..."

Shame he also praised her over the Falklands and privatisation etc.

PPPS And here's a video of Glenda Jackson's wonderful anti-tribute. "Everything I was taught to regard as a vice, under Thatcher was a virtue" - the Mail's not gonna like that...

YouGov/The Sun poll.

And finally... Matthew Todd on the Guardian online provides a fine corrective to the silly gay cheerleading, mealy mouthery, and apologias documented below.